Reluctant Upgrade to Vista
Posted on March 2, 2007
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I certainly know better but ended up doing it anyway. Never, never, never implement new technology early – especially software. Anyone who’s done so certainly knows why. It’s rarely if ever, ready for prime time, and usually takes six months to a year to work out all the bugs.
My only excuse is that it wasn’t entirely by choice that I went from Windows XP to Vista a short while back. Actually I did it within just a couple weeks of Microsoft making their new Vista operating system available – the non-business premium version that is.
The reason for doing so was simple – my laptop died. When I went to order a replacement from Dell, they were shipping Vista instead of XP. I probably could’ve found a way to special order it with XP, but was already annoyed at Dell trying to sell me everything but the kitchen sink throughout their order process, so in haste to get through it, I didn’t drill down deep enough to find that option. continue reading….
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